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ICMCS
2009
IEEE
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13 years 3 months ago
Is this joke really funny? judging the mirth by audiovisual laughter analysis
This paper presents the results of an empirical study suggesting that, while laughter is a very good indicator of amusement, the kind of laughter (unvoiced laughter vs.voiced laug...
Stavros Petridis, Maja Pantic
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Combining LVCSR and vocabulary-independent ranked utterance retrieval for robust speech search
Well tuned Large-Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) has been shown to generally be more effective than vocabulary-independent techniques for ranked retrieval of spo...
J. Scott Olsson, Douglas W. Oard
CLEF
2009
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Overview of QAST 2009
This paper describes the experience of QAST 2009, the third time a pilot track of CLEF has been held aiming to evaluate the task of Question Answering in Speech Transcripts. Four ...
Jordi Turmo, Pere Comas, Sophie Rosset, Olivier Ga...
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
124views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Exploring Automatic Query Refinement for Text-Based Video Retrieval
Text-based search using video speech transcripts is a popular approach for granular video retrieval at the shot or story level. However, misalignment of speech and visual tracks, ...
Timo Volkmer, Apostol Natsev
MM
2009
ACM
156views Multimedia» more  MM 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Understanding near-duplicate videos: a user-centric approach
Popular content in video sharing web sites (e.g., YouTube) is usually duplicated. Most scholars define near-duplicate video clips (NDVC) based on non-semantic features (e.g., di...
Mauro Cherubini, Rodrigo de Oliveira, Nuria Oliver